1 of 4 held in thefts is suspected in South Side burglary spree

Charged in thefts from vehicle

Chicago Police Department

Travis Taylor, from left, Glen Jones, Noe Rostro-Medina, Milton Webster. Taylor and Jones are charged with One felony count of Burglary, Rostro-Medina and Webster are charged with One felony count of Theft.

Travis Taylor, from left, Glen Jones, Noe Rostro-Medina, Milton Webster. Taylor and Jones are charged with One felony count of Burglary, Rostro-Medina and Webster are charged with One felony count of Theft. (Chicago Police Department)

Staff report

Calumet District tactical officers arrested two men in a car break-in this week and police discovered one may be responsible for a string of Far South Side home and car burglaries dating back a year, police said today.

Glen Jones, 18, and Travis Taylor, 19, are both charged with burglary in connection with a recent car break-in, according to a Chicago Police news release. Also charged are two suspected of buying some of the items stolen in the burglary, Milton Webster, 36, and Noe Rostro-Medina, 37, who are each charged with felony theft or control of stolen property.

Jones and Taylor were arrested about 1 p.m. Tuesday in the 11900 block of South Calumet Avenue, said Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.

The two are charged in connection with a car break-in sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Tuesday near 95th Street and Forest Avenue, authorities said.

Jones is suspected in a string of burglaries in the Roseland and West Pullman areas over the last year, according to a police source. He confessed to police to committing at least 10 burglaries and several car break-ins.

Jones and Taylor were arrested after they were found to have items taken in a vehicle break-in, and police found they had sold other items taken from the same victim to Webster and Rostro-Medina, according to the news release.

The burglaries Jones is supected of in Roseland and West Pullman resulted in the theft of items including televisions, laptops, jewelry, cell phones and other items, including credit cards. Many of the items are believed to have been sold to Webster, of the 9500 block of South Prairie Avenue, who is believed to have sold them both on the street and on Craigslist, police said. Some items also were sold to Rostro-Medina, of the 200 block of Conkey Street in Hammond, Ind.

In a hearing midday today before Criminal Court Judge Laura Sullivan, Jones was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail, Taylor in lieu of $25,000 bail and Webster in lieu of $10,000 bail, said Cook County state’s attorney’s spokesman Steve Campbell. Rostro-Medina was ordered released on a signature bond, he said. Both Taylor and Webster were ordered to be put on electronic monitoring if they are released on bond. All four are due back in court Dec. 10.